Living with Drugs
1st Edition
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Description
Living with drugs, getting to know them, controlling their use, limiting the risks of misuse. These are the conclusions that we can draw from the reading of this collective work, resulting from the seminar held at the EHESS in Paris during the years 2015-2017. It involved anthropologists, sociologists, historians, philosophers, economists, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, health center workers, community activists, users and former drug users. The seminar, like the resulting book, is based on a transversal approach to disciplines, space and time, and a confluence of academic, practical and experiential knowledge.
Key Features
- The aim of Living with Drugs is to state the progress of French research and public debates on French and international drug policy
- Confrontation of human and social sciences expertise and expertise from the field, health professionals and activists
Readership
Researchers and students in human and social sciences; researchers, practitioners and activists in the field of drugs; political and administrative decision-makers and activists on drug policy, legalization of cannabis, HIV, Human Rights, self-help organization prevention. The broad public directly or indirectly concerned by the drug issue
Table of Contents
- Usual and modern uses of drugs
2. The war on drugs: a humanitarian plague
3. Drugs and morality
4. Live and work with drugs
Details
- No. of pages:
- 300
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © ISTE Press - Elsevier 2020
- Published:
- 1st April 2020
- Imprint:
- ISTE Press - Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9781785483172
About the Author
Alessandro Stella
Alessandro Stella is Research Director at CNRS and Professor at EHESS, France. Having studied workers’ revolts, slavery and interbreeding, gender relations and sexuality, in recent years he has devoted himself to research in the field of drugs.
Affiliations and Expertise
Research Director, CNRS, EHESS, Paris, France
Anne Coppel
Anne Coppel is an activist in drug law reform and human rights. Now retired, she was formerly President of the Association Francaise de Reduction des Risques (AFR), and a public health sociologist with a focus on drug policy, HIV/AIDS and sex workers.
Affiliations and Expertise
Retired Researcher